Blog It Out Your Pie Hole

Plenty of people out there will tell you how to make money with a blog. Darren Rowse is apparently one of the best. John Chow is another guy making big money off blogging. A quick Google search reveals 47 pages of web pages (20 at a time) that want to tell you how to “make money blogging.” I’m not sure how many people have time to read each and every one of those 928 Google entries to learn how to make money with a blog, but I have a good idea how they read, and I’m sure that many of them will sell you a program to show you how to make money blogging for just $500 $400 $300 $197 $37.

In no particular order, this is your standard list of ways to make money blogging.

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For some time, I’ve been reading and using the Alexa redirect machine. Basically, if you use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?blowitoutyourpiehole.com to link to this site, it will count to Alexa as a hit to add to your Alexa ranking. It’s a neat way of getting an Alexa hit if you don’t have any Alexa widgets on your site or get visited by a spider or someone who doesn’t have javascript turned on. Whether the ranking is accurate or not is not a matter for discussion here.

I just posted a link over at the new Blondeee Blog and used the Alexa redirect, and it’s now a big fat 404 error. Now if the Alexa redirect machine is just having a temporary down time, it shouldn’t affect much, assuming that the Google and Yahoo! engines don’t start wiping their databases of the pages.

If Alexa has turned this off permanently, it will seriously drop page rankings and incoming links across the globe. If anyone used this for their adsense target, bad things worldwide will happen.

I don’t see anything out in the blogosphere about this, so maybe it’s just a temporary outage or it’s just a load balancing server issue. Maybe, just maybe, blowitoutyourpiehole.com has a jump ahead on the rest.

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Introducing a new on-line advertising method that’s taking the world by storm. Pay Per Play audio ads. Each time your page is presented to a capable browser, a five second audio ad will play to the reader. Going back to the age of cost per impression, this could be HUGE, and the best thing is that at the time of this writing it is NOT a violation of the AdSense terms of service for a website owner to display both AdSense ads and PPP audio ads. An added benefit is referrals. The PPP plan pays dividends on two levels of referrals.

The system is being verified by a third party for correct advertising bids, and PPP is the only online advertising medium that is verified by an “independent” and unbiased third party. Take a look at what this can offer you: 100% ad conversion, weekly payouts, the ability to place it on all your pages in all your domains, and residual income. Honestly, it’s a no brainer, but get more information and make your own decision.

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So I’m nearing the end of my hosting subscription with one provider. And now, in the age of cheap, multiple domains, I’m looking to consolidate my hosting. Sure, there are the Free Hosts, which work by putting an ad on your page, but every once in a while you want a grown up host. Of course, there are dangers of having all your sites in one location.

I’m compiling a list, slowly but semi-surely of all the places that I can find that allow you to host multiple domains on their sites. Since most sites that do have different plans, ranging from one to unlimited domains, I’m only going to include their unlimited domain packages on my list. Also important to me is SSH and SSL support. Since I use Google Apps for Domains, I don’t care how many email addresses the host uses, and since it’s just me, I only need one ftp account. I’m not sure why most of the places that I’ve looked at brag about how many ftp accounts the provide, but it seems to be exciting to someone.

So here it is, the beginning of the list. It’s my Google Doc, which claims to be republished every time I make a change. That’s not to say that you will be seeing constant and instantaneous changes, but it’s a start until I decide that it’s too much for a little spread sheet and make it a new page in the Pie Hole Empire.

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My son has started school, and it was his birthday yesterday. We’re having a party today for that big “05.” So anyway, he came home with a pledge form the other day for the school. With all the tax-payer dollars that are going to the schools, apparently they don’t have enough money for music, cheer and other programs. So the school has asked for donations, and I’m putting it out for the world. All profits from the ads on this site and all donations between now and October 26, 2007 will go to the school. The school needs all donation money on the 26th, so that’s why that date for cut off.

In the spirit of donation for school, all donations through this posting will go to the school regardless of when they come in. So if you are able to, and wish to, please donate to the school.

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A while ago, I signed up for Inbox Dollars. They send an email to me, and with two clicks, I earn about $0.03. Exciting, but those pennies add up. They also have some other money earning opportunities, with surveys and a portion back on their affilliate marketing center. The affilliate marketing center is basically the same as “Complete any three of these offers from each of these three pages and we’ll send you a [insert fancy prize here]” that you see all around the web but no matter how many of the offers you complete you never get the fancy prize because of “system errors” and “anomolies regarding your IP address” and other crap like that, except that Inbox Dollars actually gives you what they say they will.

In only a couple months, I’m already half-way to a cash payout. With a minimum payout value a third that of Adsense, and for those of us without millions of webpages, it’s faster to earn a couple of bucks.

With a $5 sign up bonus, and cash for each survey completed, I highly recommend this program.

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As I write this, my Alexa ranking is 4,426,952, according to the Alexa tool bar. I tried to sign up for a reviewing site, where we review a site and get a couple of dollars for it. Our Alexa rank isn’t high enough for them. I found Dosh Dosh’s 20 quick ways to increase your Alexa rank. We’re going to increase our Alexa ranking, one way or another. I have installed the Alexa toolbar so I can check it each and every minute of my life. I’m not sure it will be quite an obsession, but it will be interesting to watch it grow. Hopefully.

I’ve also changed the site around a little. Previously, I had a square ad on the first three posts on the main page and “In the News” on the third one down. I’m sure you all noticed that. On a single post page, the ad was there and the “In The News” block was there for some reason. Anyway, I have taken the ads off of the posts on the front page, and now feature the Adsense Injector on non-front page postings. I also removed the Amazon context ads and the other ad network. I figure that since each ad network has a minimum payout, and I’ve been waiting 3 years since my last adsense payout of about $20, I figure I’d better keep up on the adsense network and finally get a payout.

I also went into the wordpress control panel and changed my blog url to http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?blowitoutyourpiehole.com
so that every link goes through the alexa network. I have that link on my Viral Tags page, so hopefully it will get linked through from the Viral Tag Network, and from anyone stumbling here will click on one internal link and help boost the rank.

As we try some other things, we’ll report here how things progress. We also have the Alexa widget installed, but it’s showing a page ranking of 4,422,055 as of this writing. Strange. The Alexa page for Blow It Out Your Pie Hole also shows a very old picture, even though I have requested the robot to update the screen shot months ago. Strange.

Anyway, stay tuned as I try things, tweak things, and see what confusions or clarifications I can find.

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The updated viralink is the ViralTag. A brilliant idea in its simplicity, but flawed in its simplicity. Andy Coates discusses the hows and whys of from whence it came. At the time of this writing, our Technorati authority has already bounced up to 3. I have also changed the page layout, and have signed up with a new server, which (at the time of this writing) isn’t all setup and working.

I also took a look at the adsense TOS, and they just seem too restrictive for this host. At press time, this blog is on a GoDaddy server, and they run adsense ads. According to Adsense TOS, since they run adsense, I can’t. Without special permission. Also, text linked content ads are less obtrusive to viewers, and google restricts them if you have adsense. Eh, four years, and I still have less than $30. Six more years, and I might get a check. In the mean time, Google counts that money as “money in reserve” or some GAAP term, and that counts as money on hand, helping to thwart a takeover.

So here we go with the next step in making a couple of extra bucks with this blogging mechanism. Just enough to cover the costs of server and domain name, is that too much to ask? Right now, probably.

So looking at the rules of the ViralTag, I already have a problem. “Blow It Out Your Pie Hole” is six words, which is more than the maximum of three. “Blow Your Hole”? “Blow Your Pie?” Hmm. I think we’ll just go with “Pie Hole.” Sounds good enough. So, without further ado, we publish our version of the ViralTag.

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Instructions:

1.) Copy and paste the matrix of “ViralTags” below courtesy of Founders Cafe (to support Jimmy’s quest of launching his own Internet Startup with a shoestring budget, please consider subscribing to his Full RSS Feed to see his triumps and struggles in real time).

2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “Viral Tags” in the matrix with your anchor text of choice with your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.

3.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their “Viral Tags”, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Tag’s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your “Viral Tags” below.

4.) Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.

Host Tag: Earn money online

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Important: Once I get a ping back from you (I promise to do the best I can), I will add your anchor text and the associated link you designate as “Host Tag” here, replacing one of the “ViralTags” from the matrix above. As more and more bloggers copy and paste this matrix, the more backlinks you will have with your anchor text. If everybody who copy and paste from your blog does the same, pretty soon this will spread and go viral. So, the sooner you participate, the more links with anchor text you will receive.

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